Even in an election year, the current dysfunction in Washington reflects a worsening partisan divide that has created what amounts to parallel political universes seemingly unable to comprehend or deal with each other.

Kochs say no to Dems' probe into climate research fundingThat sum from Freedom Partners would dwarf expected spending from official GOP committees and many of the hopefuls expected to seek the Republican party's presidential nomination in 2016. A spokesman for Sen. Edward Markey of Massachusetts said in a ...03/9/2015 - 9:00 pm | View Link

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Dems End Up Believing their Own LiesIn the 1960s, when the 1930s working stiffs had become householders and begun the move to the GOP, the Dems had to win elections in new ways ... In the best of all possible worlds, a ruling class would be cunning Straussians. They would outwardly observe ...06/24/2014 - 7:28 pm | View Link

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Dems Find Message Discipline Against GOP Plan To Scrap MedicareThis is worlds different than the current spending fight, where Dems adopted the GOP argument without hesitation, and as a result are stuck accepting cuts to social programs they don't agree with. The next several months will be interesting.04/6/2011 - 5:50 am | View Link

Democratic Party (United States)The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. Tracing its origins back to the ...03/31/2015 - 9:17 am | View Website

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History of the United States Republican PartyThe Republican Party, also commonly called the GOP (for "Grand Old Party"), is the second oldest existing political party in the United States after its great rival ...03/22/2015 - 4:20 am | View Website

A Republican lawmaker in North Carolina defended his so-called “religious freedom” bill after Indiana came under file for a similar bill that critics said would allow Christian businesses to discriminate against LGBT people. Republican state Rep. Paul “Skip” Stam told WNCN th

CREDIT: ThinkProgress/ Esther Y. Lee Undocumented immigrants who make it to college face a host of financial and logistical barriers. But they are dramatically more likely to succeed if they were beneficiaries of President Obama’s executive action program, according to a new Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education study. In a survey of 909 undocumented undergraduate students across 34 states, the report authors found that a majority of undocumented students in the study reported worries about being detained or deported, with about half “personally knowing someone who had been deported including a parent or a sibling.” Undocumented undergraduates also reported higher levels of anxiety than the clinical cut off level for the “norm” population.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday released military aid to Egypt that was suspended after the 2013 overthrow of the government, in an effort to boost Cairo's ability to combat the extremist threat in the region.